nor sleep overtakes Him. To Him belongs whatever is in
the heavens and whatever is on the earth. Who is he
that can intercede with Him except with His
Permission? He knows what happens to them (His
creatures) in this world, and what will happen to them
in the Hereafter. And they will never compass anything
of His Knowledge except that which He wills. His
command extends over the heavens and the earth, and
He feels no fatigue in guarding and preserving them.

And He is the Most High, the Most Great.” (Al-
Baqarah

“Say (O Muhammad!): “He is Allah, the One, Allah is
the Self-Sufficient, Master, Whom all creatures need,
He begets not, nor was He begotten, and there is none
co-equal or comparable unto Him.” (Al-Ikhlas 112:1-

This Surah presents a clear and lucid concept about Allah the
Almighty, the concept that is far from those impurities, defects
and stains that were added to the faith of Monotheism across the
human history. Allah is not many, He is only One, everything
needs Him, He needs nothing, He is Master of all things by
Himself, He was not begotten and He does not beget. He is too

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exalted to beget or to be begotten. He is the Eternal and
Absolute. No one and nothing is equal to Him in any sense.1

This verifies the invalidity of all sorts of godhood attributed to
human beings, stone, animal, river, sun, moon, earth, fire etc.
The above-mentioned facts clarify the falsehood of idolatry,
the worship of cows, the worship of vulva and private parts of a
male.2 Even a common person can compare between the sublime
and pure principles of the Islamic faith and the descriptions and
attributes of God and His divinity in the Hindu scriptures. I think
that even an ordinary individual does not need long thinking and
deep knowledge to distinguish between the purity of the Islamic
faith and the imperfections and serious flaws in the doctrines of
other than Islam about Allah the Almighty and His attributes.

This life is an exam and test, it is only seventy or eighty years
and then everyone will die and would be held accountable for
their choice and the argument would be proved against you and
the chance would be missed forever. Allah Almighty says:

“And be afraid of the Day when you shall be brought
back to Allah. Then every person shall be paid what he

1 Sayyid Sabiq, Al-`Aqa’id Al-Islamiyyah, Cairo, pp. 50- -
2 Swami Dayananda Saraswati, Satyarth Prakash, English translation by Durga Parsad, p.311, first
edition, Virjanand Press, Lahore,1908; Abul Hasan `Ali An-Nadwi, Madha khasira al-`alam bi-inhitat al-muslimeen,
Al-Mansurah: Maktabat Al-Iman, n.p., p.49.

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earned, and they shall not be dealt with unjustly.” (Al-
Baqarah )

 Book author : EDa`wah Committee (EDC)
God is One, God is an eternal and timeless Reality, everything is from Him, but He is not from anything, He is the Creator of everything, He is the Sustainer of the whole universe.